Iraq at a distance : what anthropologists can teach us about the war

Publication Data

• Title Iraq at a distance : what anthropologists can teach us about the war
• Contributor Antonius C. G. M. Robben
• Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Philadelphia
• Language English

Contents

Ethnographic imagination at a distance: an introduction to the anthropological study of the Iraq War / Antonius C.G.M. Robben
"Night fell on a different world": dangerous visions and the War on Terror, a lesson from Cambodia / Alexander Laban Hinton
The War on Terror and women's rights in Iraq / Nadje Al-Ali
The War on Terror, dismantling, and the construction of place: an ethnographic perspective from Palestine / Julie Peteet
Losing hearts and minds in the "War on Terrorism" / Jeffrey A. Sluka
Mimesis in a war among the people: what Argentina's dirty war reveals about counterinsurgency in Iraq / Antonius C.G.M. Robben.

Topics

• War and society :: Case studies
• Political anthropology :: Fieldwork :: Case studies
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
• Iraq War, 2003-

Iraq at a distance : what anthropologists can teach us about the war. ISBN 9780812221831. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.